10 ways to refresh your home without renovating
telegraph.co.ukFlora Soames and stylist and designer Gabby Deeming spoke to the Telegraph and shared their advice for choosing colours and patterns and arranging your furniture and accessories to their best advantage.
Watch the full talk here and read on for their expert tips. “I painted my bedroom walls Old White by Farrow & Ball,” says Gabby Deeming. “It’s a bit like being in a book, it feels very calm.
But if you want your room to be more invigorating, maybe it’s a case of picking up on something bright in the room - a yellow lamp base or picture frame, or a colour in a picture, and by painting the walls that colour it will bring the room to life.”If you’re choosing a paint colour to tie in with a patterned fabric, Soames advises not getting too hung up on finding the perfect match: "Sometimes choosing a paint colour that’s one shade removed from a colour in a fabric can hold the whole look together,” she says."Sometimes it's a case of not only playing with colour, but playing with the effect too,” says Soames. “For me, gloss paint is a great way to make an impact in a room.
High gloss sheen is complicated to apply and it needs a very smooth background that’s as blemish-free as possible, but it creates a jewel-box effect, and it reflects the light wonderfully.”“The other brilliant place to use a gloss paint is in a kitchen,” adds Deeming. “If you have a kitchen you want to revamp, gloss paint works really well as a splashback in place of tiles, as it’s very practical - you can just wipe it down.” Focus on the effect you want to achieve, says Deeming. “You can paint the ceilings, the woodwork, walls and floors all the same colour, or paint your woodwork a contrasting colour; it all looks good,” she says.
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